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Hey, America. You know, happy birthday.

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I got you some tech news cuz I don't know if you're going to love all the

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other presents your dad's giving you. So, Hell Divers 2 will officially be the

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first PlayStation exclusive game actually published by PlayStation to

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arrive on Xbox when it drops from orbit on August 26. Hurrah. Is that what they

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It's a Super Earth for the win. I haven't played the game. It's not the

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first time a PlayStation exclusive has found its way to Xbox. There's MLB The

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Show, for instance, but that game is published by MLB itself, and it's

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understood they kind of forced Sony to let them do it. Baseball people, you

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know, very intimidating. They have bats. This appears to be the first time

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PlayStation has voluntarily let an exclusive crossover to Xbox. perhaps

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giving PlayStation fans a taste of the rage Xbox fans have felt for years

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watching their precious exclusives being given away. And oh uh oh, seems like the

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vast majority of PlayStation players think this is good or don't really care.

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Uh, but that's not stopping gaming sites from trying to get some clicks with Game

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Rant highlighting negative comments made by a lot of fans on Twitter, Reddit, and

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the PlayStation blog, which has three comments, all negative, and also all

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written by the same guy. As for why this is all happening now, I don't know.

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Maybe PlayStation is throwing Xbox a bone. After all, they just got hit by

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big layoffs. And then Xbox exec Matt Turnbull tried to help by offering the

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best advice he can under the circumstances, which is ideas for

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prompts that you can feed an AI that should make you feel better about being

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fired from your game developer job by the company building AI game generators.

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Thank you. In other game type news, the Stop Killing Games initiative in support

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of game preservation has hit the goals for its EU and UK petitions with more

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than 1.1 million and 150,000 signatures

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respectively. But they could still use more as officials will have to verify

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them and a bunch of those signatures probably don't count because the people

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signing didn't mean it enough. So, if you live in the EU or the UK and you

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want to stop the ruthless massacre of video games, go on and sign the

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petitions. Links are with our new sources in the description. Now, the UK

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government actually already responded to the petition in May, saying there's no

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law requiring game companies to essentially support their games

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indefinitely. But one, they're not being asked to do that, only to make an

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end-of-life plan that gives players any option to not lose the game forever.

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self-hosting servers for example and two there's no law saying that that's why

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there's a petition so now as if on Q

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right as the petitions hit their goals EA announced they'll be shutting down

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the servers for Anthem Boware's ill- fated looter shooter from 2019 on

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January 12th 2026 the news was crushing

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to players in the Anthem subreddit because yeah people have still

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consistently been playing this game because other games haven't quite

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managed to recreate that core flying around cosplaying as Iron Man mechanic,

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which was one of the things that game did right. Yes, I beat it. The story is

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bad, but the soundtrack still gets me good.

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You got to you got to check. You got Spotify. After passing votes in the

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Senate and House, US President Donald Trump has signed his big, beautiful bill

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into law, which puts some notable tech policies into place. The $7,500 EV tax

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credit is being taken away on September 30th, while tax credits for building new

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solar and wind energy infrastructure will be phased out by 2027, which is

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expected to raise the cost of electricity in nearly every state. Uh

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the big boy bill will also require 800 meghertz of electromagnetic spectrum

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around the 6 to 7 GHz mark to be auctioned off by 2034 which could make

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Wi-Fi slower as those bands are used in

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the Wi-Fi 6 and 7 spec. But there is

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something good in there. The tax credit for building chip manufacturing capacity

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in the US is rising to 35% from 25%. And

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that follows the Trump administration lifting its restrictions on the export

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of chip design software to China. Now, this will obviously help Chinese

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companies design their own chips. But it's a hopeful sign that the US's trade

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deal with China did actually go through and they'll export rare earth minerals

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again, which are vital to the production of batteries and have that satisfying

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crunch I just can't find anywhere else. The New York Times has a helpful

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breakdown of the entire bill, so check that out if you want to find out about

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all the non- tech stuff. But that's none of my business. My business is telling

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guess what? I got you more gifts because I'm your best friend and you love QuickBit, so I got some of those for

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your birthday, too. Happy birthday, America. Open them. Reviews for NVIDIA's

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RTX 5050 are out. And well,

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you know, it's it's 250 bucks, the same

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MSRP as the Intel Arc B580, but with 4

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GB less VRAM, a smaller 128 bit memory

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bus, and worse performance. Uh, once again though, how gamers feel about this

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literally doesn't matter to anyone, least of all to NVIDIA's market cap,

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which almost got high enough to make NVIDIA the world's most valuable company

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in history. But perhaps if we yell at Jensen louder, Meta is working on

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training its chat bots to message users to follow up on previous conversations

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unprompted. According to leaked documents seen by Business Insider,

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which was later confirmed by Meta, and will do nothing to make chatbots seem

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less desperate for your approval. They just fold, right? Have some backbone.

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Oh, maybe the messages can show up on this touchscreen trackpad from e- in the

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company, which is apparently specifically designed to display AI

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generated content. Why? So, I can do

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this. I mean, it might make it easier to to

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ignore. Uh, the archive team is recruiting PC users to donate internet

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bandwidth they're not using to the internet archive, which is unironically

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one of the most important public good projects out there right now. But how?

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through a tool called Archive Team Warrior, which runs inside a lightweight

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virtual machine and uses almost no system resources. Check it out. Maybe

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support them by getting a sticker that depicts an Archive Team Warrior running

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away from danger. Ah, hey, I mean, uh,

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not all wars, uh,

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not all wars. The Fairphone 6, a phone

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designed specifically to be super repairable, came out last week and

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iFixit has given it a repairability score of 10 out of 10. Phew,

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that was a close one.

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That would have been embarrassing.

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Oo. And a company called Black Dot has made its automatic tattooing machine,

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which they insist is not a robot, available to the public in a New York

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tattoo shop called Bang Bang. But while I was looking for info on their website,

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the thing that stuck out to me the most is this ebook written by Black Dot's

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founder and CEO about himself that you

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can read for free if you give them your email address. The text seems kind of

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cool, but that's coming from someone who doesn't have a single tattoo. I lost

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them all in the war. But tattoo enthusiasts do not seem to like it. I

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think I'd rather take my chances with Emily the Engineers Frankenstein 3D

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printer tattoo printer thing instead.

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Looks safer. But don't take your chances on missing any tech news. Come back on

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Monday. Unless you booked an appointment with the tattoo robot. He is famously

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cranky about